Hot stove for glassware.



E. L. ZiHLMANN.

HOT STOVE FOR GLASSWARE.

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HOT STOVE FOR GLASSWARE.

APPLICATION FILED lULY 9. i911- Patented Feb; 26:, 1918.

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HGT STEVE F81 GLASSWAEE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Application filed July 9, 1917. Serial No. 179,497.

, pieces being then carried to the leer or annealin oven.

In t e making of small glassware, such as tumblers, milk bottles, and like articles, it is customary to employ youn boys for the purpose of cracking ofi an carrying in. The last named boys carried the ware from the sho to the annealing oven as fast as a load accumulated. lhe child labor law interfered with this practice and it became necessary to provide means for eliminating or at least reducing to a very large extent the number of boys employed as carry in boys.

The general object of this invention is to provide an oven or heater wherein the glassware may be disposed while a load is being accumulated and in this connection to provide'i or a ready placing of the glassware within the oven or heater and a ready removal of the load therefrom.

A further object is to provide carrier pans adapted to be disposed one after another within the heater and removed one after another therefrom, these pans being so constructed that the separate glass articles are kept separatedfrom each other so as to prevent the articles which are at red heat from sticking together and eliminate loss by melts.

A further object in this connection is to reduce loss due to breakage of the articles, prevent scratching and also prevent leer melts, due to an. improper condition of the articles when they were taken from the heater.

A further object is to provide a heater and carrier pan therefor, so constructed that the heat can circulate freely through the pans to all parts and corners thereof so that the annealing of the glass begins in the hotstove or heater duringthe accumulation of the ware at the shops.

A further object is to provide means for very readily shifting the pans one one through the stove or heater and provide for an automatic movement of the filled panupon tracks toward the outlet door of the heater and upon said door when the latter is turned down, so as to place the filled pan in convenient position to be removed by the workman who carries the pan to the-annealmg oven.

Other objects will appear in the course of the following description.

My invention is illustrated in the accora- 4 panying drawings, wherein Figure 1 15 a side elevation of a hot stove constructed in accordance with my in ex,

tion;

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section therethrough Fig. 3 is a section on the-line 3-3 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 is an end elevation of the construction illustrated in Fig. 1 looking toward the entrance end; and

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary top plan view of the hood and adjacent portions of the easinn 10.

@hc stove or heater comprises a. she t iron casing approximately rectangular in cross section, the casing being designated 10. llhis casing is about long, about 18" wide and 20 high. The middle portion of the bottom of the casing is fiat and horizontal as at 11 and the bottom of the casing at its ends extends upward and outward as at 12 and 13. Each of these bottom portions 12 and 13 is provided with a cleaning opening normally closed by a slide 14. Above the middle portion ofthe casing there is disposed a hood 15 also of sheet metal, this hood having an opening 16 communicating with the interior of the heater and. being provided with a transversely extending shelf 17 disposed above the opening. Just forward of the opening 16, the top of the heater is formed with a hinged section 18 adapted to be shifted to difierent angular positions, so that the free edge may be adjusted to different heights and remain in adjusted position to permit articles of different heights or sizes to be passed through the opening 16 and, of course, to accommodate pans of different heights passing along with through @hereef and disposed below the last named plessweredispesed intermediate the erids of She easing, an endless carrier extenclmg the casmg nearly to the rear end opening, means for operating said endless carrier, means for mamteining heat within the casing, and tracks recelvmg ertides the endless carrier and discharging amides upon the tracks on the finer, and downwardly and yeer'werdly inclined, whereby to cause said articles to move by gravity to the ex'it'end of the casing.

9. A but stove comprising an eiengeted; casing hevingdoors at its forward and rear ends, means fer main'aalning heat Within the interior of the stove e-n-encliess carrier 20 mounted Within the Steve wed adapted t0 carry ertleles 30 the 9111 endti iiereef the "top of the Steve being formed with en 01381,."

imp; for the msertien of ereiclee, an e":- tlcle receptacle adapted. to rem; ugaon 'ihe endless carrier formed of metal and having sheet metal. pertitiens eiefining' cem- EDWARD L. ZIHLMANN. Witnesses:

HOMER E. HOLT, G. N. Emeee. 

